John Cena had ”top-of-the-line experiences” of his life working with Jackie Chan.
The WWE Superstar-and-actor seems alongside the martial arts icon in ‘Project X-Traction’, which is about to be launched this yr, and John admits he was bought on the mission by the chance to work with the ‘Shanghai Noon’ star and was so grateful for the information and recommendation Jackie gave him on set.
In an interview with Collider, John mentioned: ”It was enlightening and it was top-of-the-line experiences in my life. It’s f***ing superior … He has taught me and helped me in additional methods than he’ll ever know in a single expertise… Usually I say I’ve to learn a mission to be riveted by it. That is one title the place if it is like, ‘Hey, Jackie desires to do that’, I’m bought. It’s that efficient.
”He’s this barrel of f***ing knowledge and he’s making an attempt to present it away and it is superior. He’s simply superior to be round.”
The 42-year previous grappler believes that Jackie, 65, is the best ”bodily storyteller” of his era and in contrast his affect on movie, specifically his distinctive stunt work, to that of silent film stars Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
John – who’s courting Shay Shariatzadeh – defined: ”In the WWE, it is a trash-talking enterprise however our tales are instructed bodily, that is why it is so world. You may flip the quantity off and be like, ‘Good man, unhealthy man. I get it.’
”Jackie is once-in-a-generation, perhaps, probably the final, simply due to the way in which issues are completed and the way in which leisure is skewing. He is definitely our era’s nice bodily storyteller.
”You speak Keaton and Chaplin and Chan is in that dialog and his course of is simply … dude, I’ve goosebumps. It’s superior and at his age; he defies age. He defies time. He is at all times artistic.
”No job is just too small. He will sweep the ground. He treats his crew like household. I may waste each minute you may have saying the praises of Jackie Chan and I consider he is underappreciated in America.”
